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One of the issues of living on a remote Cumbrian farm is we have to use a septic tank, rather than a modern waste water system. It’s no big deal really, it just sits under one of the fields and the nice chap comes with his tanker every now and again to empty it. However, [...]
Found a great blog when looking for the Energy from Waste website and came across a blog post called websites worth knowing on the Home Matters Most blog. It would have been easy to simply click the link and move away from the site but the comment under the writers picture really struck me: “People [...]
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have gone from supporters of the governments eco-town proposals to the loudest critics and not without good reason. Marina Pacheco, Head of Planning at CPRE, speaking to the Independent on the greenwash masquerading as an eco-town said “We were told Eco-towns would make good use of brownfield land [...]
In early May 2008 Defra approved a GM potato trial at Leeds University, stating “It is satisfied that the proposed trial will not result in any adverse effect on human health or the environment.” The trial was to be carried out in North Yorkshire and last for three years. A similar trial last year had [...]
When I read about this this morning I had to check the date to see if it was April 1st but it seems there really has been a breakthrough in cleaning technology that could save billions of litres of water per year. Leeds University have invented a virtually waterless washing machine called the Xeros, which [...]